Canberra Ladies Guild and City Activities Highlight
Dame Pattie Menzies discusses her Japan trip for St Columba's Presbyterian Church Women's Guild social. Canberra groups plan a women's bowling club, library lecture, and Lilac Time displays with diverse artists and civic projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pattie Menzies
Japan
St. Columba's Presbyterian Church Women's Guild
Suzuki
N.S.W. Department of Education
Terence Hunt
Barbara Aldridge
Franz Hutchins
Misa Aldridge
Canberra
Young ballerinas shine at concert for Locke Children's Appeal
A Canberra audience watched young ballerinas rehearse for a concert at the University College Hall last night to aid the Locke Children's Appeal. Repertory's Arta Council invites members to supper at Albert Hall to meet the cast of Murder in the Albert Hall and oversee front of house for school matinees and ballet programs by the Elizabethan Opera Ballet Company. In other notes, United Nations Day events, a Red Cross film night, and Welsh Society dancing plans feature in Canberra society activity. Alan Alder, a 20 year old Canberra dancer, joined the Sadler Wells Opera Ballet Company after training in Canberra and England.
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Young _ ballerinas
Canberra University College Hall
Locke
Arta Council
Albert Hall
Arts Council
Elizabethan Opera Ballet Company
Cymdeithas Cymru
Welsh Society
Canberra
C.W.A
Sydney
Alan Alder
England
Sadlers Wells Ballet School
Sadlers Wells Opera Ballet Company
Alan
Barbara Todd
Grace Campbell-Smith
Joanna Bowers
Canberra ARMA sub-branch farewells Mr Day in Canberra
The Canberra sub-branch of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps Association bid farewell to Mr and Mrs R Day of Turner at Hotel Wellington. Day, a former secretary and vice president, leaves Canberra for a building inspector post with the Snowy Mountains Authority at Cabramurra. President Bruce Burgis thanked him for seven years of service as about 20 attendees watched the presentation.
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Canberra
Royal Australian Armoured Corps Association
R. Day
Turner
Wellington
Mrr. Day
Snowy Mountains Authority
Cabramurra
Bruce Burgis
Day
Armoured Corps
Australian war history volume slated for publication
A new Australian official war history volume Air War Against Japan 1943 45 by George Odgers will be published on Friday detailing RAAF operations in the South West Pacific from April 1943 to war’s end. Another volume The Japanese Thrust by Lionel Wigmore appears in November covering Malaya the Indies campaigns early WWII and prisoner experiences.
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Japan
George Odgers
Fairhall
R.A.A.F
South-West Pacific
Lionel Wigmore
Malaya
The
Indies
Churchill Got Wrong Reply
In Kennedy’s war memoir The Business of War to be published next month, Churchill supposedly rang the War Office and spoke with a duty clerk at M O.5 in the Middle East section. The clerk answered with confident but generic reassurances about Syria and a French turning movement, then disclosed his identity as Corporal Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Winster Churchill
John Kennedy
Daily Mail
Toso Kennedy
Imperial General Staff
Winston
War Office
Middle East
Churchill
Syria
Corporal Jones
M_O.5
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Chandlers
China
Shelley
Royal Staffordshire
Parliament House
Ware Memorial
Maila
E. & C. Chandler
Kennedy
Kingston
A.C.T
Kibe
W. Crawford
P. Bommerville
Nora i
Canberra City
Crawford
Sommerville
Department of Interior
Con
Labenegg
Y.W.C.A
Canberra University College
E. K. Emmery
League
Victoria League
J. K. Lawrence
League Club
Goulburn
Horticultural Society
Garden Club
APEX
Apex Club
Publc
Country Women's Association
United Nations
United Nations Organisation
RED Cross
Yarralum-la Deakin
Canberra Wear
Commonwealth National Library
Canberra Ang District Historical Society
Ernest Cameron
N.S.W
Cameron &Pen
Timbrell
Children’s Shoe Store
Mrs. Day
Cunningham Street
Arnott
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